After a few brief introductions from the various conference organizers (in which we learned that next year’s conference is in Ulm, Germany), we had a keynote from Paul Harmon on the current state and future of BPM. It covered a lot of the past, too: from the origins of quality management and process improvement through [...]
Another new BPMN book, this one by Stephen White (arguably the inventor of BPMN) and Derek Miers: BPMN Modeling and Reference Guide. It won’t be released until September, with a public launch at the Gartner BPM summit in DC. From the product description: This book is for both business users and process modeling practitioners alike. [...]
I noticed in one of Tom Debevoise’s posts last week that he recently co-authored the book The Microguide to Process Modeling in BPMN, and on closer examination, I see that his co-author is Rick Geneva of Intalio, with Ismael Ghalimi writing the foreword. From the product description on Amazon: With over fifty implementations listed, Business [...]
Previously, I posted about the free BPMN 1.0 poster available for download from ITPoster.net, and now the Business Process Technology Group at the Hasso Plattner Institute has published one for BPMN 1.1. Both provide a good quick reference; the BPT version has just the graphical object notation, while the ITPoster version also includes some patterns [...]
Not only did Oracle schedule this briefing on Canada Day, the biggest holiday in Canada, but they forced me to download the Real Player plug-in in order to participate. The good part, however, is that it was full streaming audio and video alongside the slides. Charles Phillips, Oracle President, kicked off with a welcome and [...]
The second part of the morning keynote was by Bill Curtis, who was involved in developing CMM and CMMI, and now is working on the Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM). I’ve seen quite a bit about BPMM at OMG functions, but this is the first time that I’ve heard Curtis speak about it. He started [...]
Active Endpoints is hosting a webinar this Thursday on BPEL Basics for Java Developers, featuring Ron Romano, their principal consulting architect. From their information: A high-level overview of BPEL and its importance in a web-services environment is presented, along with a brief discussion of the basic BPEL activities and how they relate to Java concepts. [...]
I really didn’t sit down this afternoon to write that last enormous post on the Great BPMN Debate, I remembered that Jan Recker (co-author on the research paper that sparked the debate, although not a participant in the debate) had sent me a pre-release copy of a paper that he authored, “BPMN Modeling — Who, [...]
If you have even a passing interest in BPMN, you’re probably aware of the great debate happening amongst a few of the BPM bloggers in the past week: Michael zur Muehlen and Jan Recker publish an academic research paper on BPMN usage, “How Much Language is Enough? Theoretical and Practical Use of the Business Process [...]
There’s something funny about chatting via IM with someone as you’re listening to them give a public webinar, even when you do know that the presentation is pre-recorded — I was on Skype with Bruce Silver today during his webinar The Business Process Expert and the Future of BPM on ebizQ, where he was speaking [...]
I’m up now, and here’s what I’ll be presenting: | View | Upload your own I know, it’s long, but I’ll breeze past a number of the slides that I put in there just for reference. If this isn’t enough on standards for you, I highly recommend Michael zur Muehlen’s BPM standards tutorial, both the [...]
Alec Sharp led a facilitated session on standards that we love, hate, or wish were there (or don’t care about). This is a bit similar to the BPM Think Tank roundtables, but we’re at about six small tables so had a chance for some mini-break-out sessions to discuss ideas, then gather them together. The notes [...]
Michael zur Muehlen sent me a link to the updated version of his standards tutorial, and to the audio recording provided by the BPM conference organizers in Brisbane. Enjoy!
Michael zur Muehlen, who I met at the BPM Think Tank in August, gave a tutorial on standards at the recent BPM conference in Brisbane, Australia. He noticed that I’m giving a presentation on standards at the upcoming Shared Insights/IIR BPM conference in San Diego next month, and invited me to check out his slides [...]
I received an email last week from Nathaniel Palmer of WfMC on the upcoming XPDL 2.1 specification: We are now in the process of developing the specification for XPDL 2.1 with the final list of changes to be completed by the next WfMC meeting on October 11-12, 2007. It is expected that XPDL 2.1 will [...]
The second roundtable that I attended on last Tuesday’s sessions was on BPEL, headed up by Ismael Ghalimi. It was great to finally meet Ismael in person: we’ve been corresponding by email and blog comments for quite a while, and have even done a webinar together, but this is the first time that we’ve been [...]
Metastorm CEO Bob Farrell gave a briefing this morning about their acquisition of Proforma; not much that wasn’t covered in the press release except the following: Their customers were demanding BPA functionality that obviously went beyond what they offered as part of their BPMS. They’ll be using Proforma’s CIF as an interchange format — a major [...]
I’m just getting to the last of the BPM Think Tank sessions, namely, the roundtables and one lunch session that I had documented on paper. The three sessions of roundtables spanned Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, and were some of the best conversations that I had at the conference. I’ll cover each of the ones that I attended [...]
Replacing the scheduled Bill Curtis (who had to cancel due to a family emergency), Chief Process Officer at McAfee, John Alden of Capability Measurement (which he co-founded with Curtis) gave the second day keynote on the role of the Chief Process Officer in business process improvement. Responsibilities of the CPO: Champion enterprise process discipline: quantify [...]
The final session of the day was a panel with representatives from four standards organizations: Fred Cummins of OMG (BPMN, BPDM), Charlton Barreto of W3C, Keith Swenson of WfMC (XPDL) and John Evdemon of OASIS (BPEL), moderated by Fred Waskiewicz of OMG. The first question was on the focus or mission of each organization: OMG [...]
